Bulkhead construction for cars.



E. J. SHUR. BULKHEAD CONSTRUCTION FOR CARS.

APPLICATION FlLD NOV. Il, 1916.

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BULKI-IEAD CONSTRUCTION FOR CARS.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 18, 1917.

Application filed November 1'1, 1916. Serial No. 130,813.

To all whom it may Concern:

Be it known that L'llDWARD J. .SrIUn a citizen of the. United States, resiflllig Slt New Orleans, in the parish of rleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bulkhead Constructions for Cars, of which t-lie following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to bulkhead constructions for refrigerator cars; and it contemplates the provision of an iinproved bulli-head construction designed more especially for use in refrigerator cars for ti'ansporting bananas, and embodying elements so combined and rclati\'el ar- 'anged that bananas or other cargo may be bulk-headed at any point. intermediate the ice eon'ipartment of the Iar and the door thereof, with a view to precluding chilling and consequent deterioration of the bananas or other cargo.

The invention also contemplates the attainment of the foregoing end without. the building of wooden racks in the ear and the use of nails in the insulated portion of the car, with the formation'of a multiplicity of nail holes which materially lessen the etticiency of the said insulated portion.

The invention also contemplates the provision of a bulli-head which may be suspended overhead in the car bodv when not in use, and a foldable brace for sustaining the bulk-head against the pressure of a loadv of bananas or the like.

Other advantageous characteristics of the invention will be fully understood from the following description and Claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a longitudinal Vertical section of a cai' constructed in accordance with present invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same, taken in the plane indicated by the line 2 2 of F ig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both views of the dra wings.

The ear body 1 is shown as provided with the usual false licor 2, of spaced slats, and the usual ice or refrigerating compartment 3 which is connected with the interior of the cargo-carrying portion of the car through an opening 4, and an opening 4% In furtherance of my present invention longitudinal rails 5 are provided on the underside of the ear roof; the said rails being preferably of channel form with slots in their bottoms, as shown in F ig. 2. I also provide between the rails 5 a longitudinal rod 6 on which .a hook Tis freely movable, for a purpose hereinafter set forth. i

Pivoted to the. wall between the compartment. 3 and the cargo-carrying portion of the car is a bail-shaped brace 8 which is designed when the bulk-head 9 is positioned near said wall to support the said bulk-head against the pressure of bananas or other cargo in the cargo-carrying portion. The downward movement of the said brace 8 is limited by chains 10, and when not in use the brace is held by a pivoted hook 11 in the idle position shown by dotted lilies in Fig. 1 where it is out of the way and does not detract from the capacity of the cargo-carrying portion of the car.

The. car body l is shown as provided with, the usual open-work frames 12 for maintaining the cargo in spaced relation to its upright walls, as is always desirable, and on the side frames l2 I arrange longitudinal notched or rack bars 13, for co' peration with the bulk-head 9.

The bulli-head 9 is preferably made up of a gate 14, having an eye 15 for the engagement of the hook 7, wheeled carriers 1G movable in the rails 5, and hanger arms 17, fixed to the gate and pivotally connected to the carriers 1G so as to permit of said arms and gate being swung vertically -in the direction of the length of the car. llVhen the bulk-head is not in use it is swung upwardly to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1, and is dctachably secured in said position by the engagement ,of the hook 7 with the eye 15. For the purpose of enabling an attendantl to conveniently manipulate the bull; head l` provide the lever 1S, best shown in Fig. 2. The .said lever 1S is pivoted at 19 to a rotatable bracket 20, mounted on a vertical pintle 21 in one of the spaces of the gate 14, and hence it will be manifest that the lever 18 may be swung from the position shown, in the plane of the gate, to a position at right angles to the gale, and vice versa. lVhen disposed at right angles to the gate the lever 18 serves for the convenient manipulation of the bullehead, and when arranged in the plane of the gate as shown in F ig. 2 the lever is entirely out of the way. It will be i connection that the lever 18 ly maintained in the latter posiishaped resilient clip 25 into lever may be pressed and from may be pulled when it is desired to :he bulli-head gat/e 14 are rdly swinging latch-bolts ed to be extended and of the bars 13, with a fixing the bulk-head at i various points in the length of the car body.

When the said latch bolts 26 are retracted or moved endv/ise inwardly they obviously will clear the bars 13, and vill in no measure interfere 'with the adjustment of the bulkhead.

lt will be gathered from the foregoing that notwithstanding the practical utility of my novel bulli-head construction, the .saine- `is simple and inexpensive, and embodies no delicate parts such as are liable to get ont of orderV after a short period of use.

`Having" described my invention, what I claim and desire ent, is

l. ln a bnllehead construction, Athe combination-of a body, longitudinal notched bars fined to the side walls thereof, longitudinal rails maintained at the underside of the roof ot the Jody, carriers movable on said rails, and a built-head connected with said carriers and having endwise extensible and vertically-swnging latches to seat in notches of the bars. A

n a bulirfhead construction, the combination of a body, longitudinal notched bars fixed to the side Walls thereof, longitudinal rails maintained at the'underside of the roof of the body, a lcngtudinal rod also maint'i'ned at the underside of the roof of the nocly, ogn movable on said reils,e bulkto secure by Letters Pathead pivotally connected with said carriers to swing vertically in the direction of the length ot' the body, endwise extensible and vertically-swinging latches carried by the bulk-head to seat in notches of the bars, and a suspension device movable on the loi'igitudinal rod and constructed and arranged to detachably engage the bulli-head and maintain the saine in an over-head, idle position.

3. In a bulli-head construction, the combination ot' a body, a bulk-head adjustable in the direction of the length ot' the body, means complementary to the body and means complementary to the bulk-head for coperating' with the lirst-named means to adjustably fix the bulk-head in the body, a lever for manipulating the bulliehead, a clip for detachably securing said lever in idle position to the bulk-head, and a horizontally rotatable bracket connected to the bulk-head and serving for the connection of said lever.

4. Ina bulk-head construction, the combinat-ion of a body having a refrigerating conipartment and a cargo compartment sepa.- rated by a wall from the refrigerating compartment, a vertically-swinging brace connected to -the cargo side of Said wall, means for maintaining said brace in workingl position, means for maintaining the brace in idle position, a bulk-head adapted to be slpported by said brace when it is arranged against the same, and means for adjnstably fixing the bulk-head in position against the brace.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD d.

Witnesses:

R. G. Evene,

M. E. KNIGHT. 

